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A list of the best John Keats quotes. This list is arranged by which famous John Keats quotes have received the most votes, so only the greatest John Keats quotes are at the top of the list. All the most popular quotes from John Keats should be listed here, but if any were missed you can add more at the end of the list. This list includes notable John Keats quotes on various subjects, many of which are inspirational and thought provoking.

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A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: Its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness; but still will keep a bower quiet for us, and a sleep full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing...John Keats

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Beauty is truth, truth beauty -- that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.John Keats

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I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.John Keats

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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.John Keats

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My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.John Keats

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A proverb is not a proverb to you until life has illustrated it.John Keats

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When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.John Keats

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Give me books, fruit, French wine and fine weather and a little music out of doors, played by someone I do not know. I admire lolling on a lawn by a water-lilied pond to eat white currants and see goldfish: and go to the fair in the evening if I'm good. There is not hope for that --one is sure to get into some mess before evening.John Keats

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Health is my expected heaven.John Keats

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Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced -- even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it.John Keats

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Though the most beautiful creature were waiting for me at the end of a journey or a walk; though the carpet were of silk, the curtains of the morning clouds; the chairs and sofa stuffed with cygnet's down; the food manna, the wine beyond claret, the window opening on Winander Mere, I should not feel --or rather my happiness would not be so fine, as my solitude is sublime.John Keats

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I always made an awkward bow.John Keats

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The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing --to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts. Not a select party.John Keats

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Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true.John Keats

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.John Keats

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Though a quarrel in the streets is a thing to be hated, the energies displayed in it are fine; the commonest man shows a grace in his quarrel.John Keats

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The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy; but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted: thence proceeds mawkishness.John Keats

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The roaring of the wind is my wife and the stars through the window pane are my children. The mighty abstract idea I have of beauty in all things stifles the more divided and minute domestic happiness.John Keats

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There is nothing stable in the world; uproar's your only music.John Keats

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What the imagination seizes as beauty must be the truth.John Keats

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I would jump down Etna for any public good -- but I hate a mawkish popularity.John Keats

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Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?John Keats

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Faded the flower and all its budded charms,Faded the sight of beauty from my eyes,Faded the shape of beauty from my arms,Faded the voice, warmth, whiteness, paradise!Vanishd unseasonablyJohn Keats

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Are there not thousands in the world who love their fellows even to the death, who feel the giant agony of the world, and more, like slaves to poor humanity, labor for mortal good?John Keats

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I equally dislike the favor of the public with the love of a woman -- they are both a cloying treacle to the wings of independence.John Keats

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O fret not after knowledge -- I have none, and yet my song comes native with the warmth. O fret not after knowledge -- I have none, and yet the Evening listens.John Keats

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My passions are all asleep from my having slumbered till nearly eleven and weakened the animal fiber all over me to a delightful sensation about three degrees on this sight of faintness -- if I had teeth of pearl and the breath of lilies I should call it languor -- but as I am I must call it laziness. In this state of effeminacy the fibers of the brain are relaxed in common with the rest of the body, and to such a happy degree that pleasure has no show of enticement and pain no unbearable frown. Neither poetry, nor ambition, nor love have any alertness of countenance as they pass by me.John Keats

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There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify -- so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish.John Keats

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There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.John Keats

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Do not all charms fly at the mere touch of cold philosophy? There was an awful rainbow once in heaven: we know her woof, her texture; she is given in the dull catalogue of common things. Philosophy will clip an angel's wings, conquer all mysteries by rule and line, empty the haunted air, and gnome mine unweave a rainbow.John Keats

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I think we may class the lawyer in the natural history of monsters.John Keats

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Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works.John Keats

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I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.John Keats

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kmcwilliams6890 added Of the wide world I stand alone, and think Till Love and Fame to nothingness do sink.

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Who would wish to be among the commonplace crowd of the little famous -- who are each individually lost in a throng made up of themselves?John Keats

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It appears to me that almost any man may like the spider spin from his own inwards his own airy citadel.John Keats

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